This has seriously been the most effed up week...I'm beyond coherent thoughts or emotions.

Oh, and I am subbing on the most unfortunate of days: April Fools.

Lord give me strength, for none do I posess.

I have a job interview!!! This Wednesday at a junior high in Arlington. It's for the attendance clerk position. I am so pumped. I really hope it goes well and that I can start working again. YAY!

Thank you to all who bestowed gifts upon our little one this past saturday. We had a wonderful time and we are glad those of you who drove so far came and stayed for a bit.

Roxanne Bielskis, staff writer at Divergingcomics.com had this to say about David's mini comic Some Other Day


Way to go hon, I'll just end this in song:
"...you're gonna make it after aaallllll!"

I was just sitting on the couch eating some fish and peaches and watching Happy Days. This particular episode was kinda funny. The Cunninghams invite this french fencing champion into their home while he is in Milwaukee for a fencing demonstration. He turns his nose up at their offerings of meatloaf and fresh Wisconsin wine, insults America (just like those french people tend to do), so the Fonz takes him on in a fencing challenge. The Fonz beats the french guy and makes him say "Uncle...Sam" when he corners his opponent. Afterwords, the Fonz asks french dude to Arnolds to join them and they all leave with arms on each others shoulders.

So what I learned fromt his very special episode is that if we beat snotty countries into submission we will win their respect and prove our superiority, even if we look like common trailer trash in brown leather jackets and axle grease in our hair. It's heartwarming isn't it?

I went to the opthamologist today. On the building spray painted in hot pink were the words:

"Ninja Jesus"

If only I had one of those damn camera phones. All my cameras are rather large and involved.

Religion Kills

Jay Bakker's church

I find myself in a snowstorm of appointments, poking and prodding me, sticking me with sharp objects, just to make sure the little one and I are healthy. Dietician, opthamology, lab work, and endocrinology...all ruling my life this week.

This week is week 30...just a little over two more months to go before I meet my little girl. I already know that she gets hiccups mostly in the morning, she gets exicted at the sound of preachers hollering from the pulpit, and she jumps at the sound of the alarm clock going off.

I hope she likes dark pink, black, and white...I feel guilty choosing her room style for her. She might like something totally different, but I have no way of checking with her before she sees it. I can't wait to buy her very first pair of Converse.

Sorry for lack of blog posts, been out of town and taking a break.

Went to see a specialist this morning and it's official: gestational diabetes. Oh, it'll probably go away once I have the baby, but it sucks. It totally explains why I have been crashing during the day. I get to stick myself 3 times a day and see what my bloodsugar is doing. I practiced twice on David. He's such a brave volunteer!

So don't offer me anything with sugar in it...I've got to be strong. :)

From Narnia.com
"THE WALT DISNEY STUDIOS ENTERS INTO AGREEMENT WITH WALDEN MEDIA TO PRODUCE "THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE"

First Film in C.S. Lewis' Landmark Series Scheduled to be Released Christmas, 2005

BURBANK, CA ( March 1, 2004) - The Walt Disney Studios has entered into an agreement with Walden Media to co-finance and distribute the long-awaited motion picture The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the first book published in C.S. Lewis' famed series, it was announced today (3/1) by Dick Cook, chairman of The Walt Disney Studios, and Cary Granat, chief executive officer of Walden Media. The live-action film will be directed by Andrew Adamson (Shrek, Shrek 2) and is scheduled to be released Christmas, 2005, by Walt Disney Pictures. The agreement allows for the continuation of the partnership for future films in the series. "

In my search for motivation and inspiration:

Paper Brigade a site by Matt Rubins, a guy who attended the Kansas high school that I did. Great gallery of up and coming photographers' work.

some of his own work here. Great site design.

From good old Stan

There is an upcoming event I hope you will all make it to. On
Tuesday, March 30, 2004 in the University Gallery on the Commerce
campus The Third Floor Alumni Invitational will open at 7PM. Work
from Neal Farris, David Hathcox, Paul Howell, Scott Hunt, Brian
Kuntz, John Madere, James McGoon, Greg Milano, Dennis Murphy, Earl
Nottingham, Matthew Savins, Mark Seliger, Chris Shinn and Danny
Turner will be featured. I have attached the postcard announcement
that is being sent out.

Several of the alumni will be in attendance. Sounds like a great time
to see old friends and look at some incredible work.

I'm so excited!

i really really really really really really really really need to pick up my camera. any title of 'photographer' that i had earned at one time is completely waning.

It's really sad to see some of these students obsess over getting a A- rather than an A+ and demanding to see their grades from a previous grading period (which can't be changed) and freaking out about it. I say "It's still an 'A.' What are you worried about?"

"Well my grade point average...college...National Honor Society...blah blah blah."

My thoughts:
Have any of you post grads lost your job because you had a 92 instead of a 100 in high school photo or didn't make NHS? I dont know who's pumping this pressure at some of these kids but the ones who worry about the above aren't the ones who need to have their ass kicked in gear.

It's the ones who sit on their butts and refuse to pursue anything at all.

You're Mother Night!

by Kurt Vonnegut

Nobody knows what to believe about you, and you know least of all. You
spent most of your time convinced that the ends justify the means, but your means were,
well, downright mean! And the end is nigh. Meanwhile all you want is to travel back in
time, if not to change, then to just delight in the way it used to be. You are who you
pretend to be. Oh yes, you're the great pretender.


Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

Haven't posted in awhile, a frenzy of teaching high school, registering for baby stuff, and visits from inlaws have kept me running full stop.

I spend a lot of down time laying on the couch and bemoaning my poor lower back (its really not used to holding up the large bowling ball that has attached itself to the lower front part of my body). During these times I pull my shirt up over my belly and watch the Alien-like movements causing my rounded stomach to change shape and distort as she finds a comfotable spot to curl up in and take a nap. Then I take her lead and take my own nap.